Cameron HeroldFounder of the COO Alliance & Invest In Your Leaders Training

Hire for Potential, Not Resumes—Here’s Why It Pays Off | The Pickle Juice Company (Podcast 474)

15 May 2025 · 1 min

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Short podcast excerpt arguing the company hires for cultural fit and potential over formal experience. The speaker emphasizes promoting from within, taking risks on people with unconventional backgrounds (example: an art-school graduate now leading an apartment), and highlights a playful internal marketing program (“Save the Pickles”) as evidence of cultural alignment. Tone: pragmatic, playful.

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I think we hire for culture more than experience. We try to promote from within whenever possible. So we. We look for ceiling rather than floor. We aren't afraid to take risks on people. We have one person who went to art school that's about to be heading up an apartment, and that has nothing to do with art school. But she's an incredible leader and incredible talent. Her vision is totally aligned. She's implemented some really, really cool programs. She came up with this whole Save the Pickles campaign, which is like, we sort of make fun of our completely unique, definitely not ripped off Save the Pickles campaign. Wow. That's amazing. Yeah, we. We tell people here we take our jobs very seriously. We just don't take ourselves very seriously. Love it.